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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Pike (A.) — Contiuued. 



F6. He arrivod at Taos on Novomber 10, hav- 

 ing walked five hundred miles from Cimarron 

 Kivor, whore his horse ran off in a storm. 

 After resting a few daj's, ho went on foot from 

 Taos to Santa ¥6, and remained there as clerk 

 until September, 1832, then joining a party of 

 forty-flvo, with which ho went down the Pecos 

 River and into the Staked Plain, then to tho 

 headwaters of tho Brazos, part of tho time 

 without food or water. Finally Pike, with 

 four others, left the company, and reached Fort 

 Smith, Ark., in December. The following 

 spring ho turned his attention to teaching, and 

 iu 1833 lie became associate editor of the "Ar- 

 kan.sas Advocate." In 1834 he purchased en- 

 tiro control, but disposed of the paper two 

 years later to engage in the practice of law, for 

 which hehad fitted himself during his editorial 

 caref-r, In 1839 he contributed to "Black, 

 wood's Magazine" tho unique productions en- 

 tilled "Hymns to Iho Gods," which he had 

 written se,v>ral years before while teaching in 

 Now England, and which at once gave him an 

 honored place among American poet«. As a 

 lawyer he attained a high reputation in the 

 southwest, though ho still devoted part of his 

 time to literary pui suits. During the Mexican 

 war ho commanded a squadron in the reginu nt 

 of Arkansas mounted voluntceis in 184G-'47, 

 was at Bucna Vista, and in 1847 rode with 

 forty-one men from Saltillo to Chihaubua, re- 

 ceiving the surrender of the city of Mapimi on 

 the way. At the beginning of tho civil war he 

 becap^e Confedorato commissioner, nog )tiatin"- 

 treaties of amity and alliance with several In- 

 dian tribes. While thus engaged he was ap- 

 pointed brigadier-general, and organized bodies 

 of Indians, with which he took pnrt in the bat- 

 tles of Pea Itidgo and Elkhoru. In 1S6G he en- 

 gaged iu tlie practice of law at Ifeniphis. 

 During 1807 he became editoroftlio "Memjihis 

 Appeal," but in 1868 he sold his interest in the 

 papcraiid removed to Washington, D. C, where 

 ho practiced his profession in the supreme and 

 district courts. He retired iu 1880, and has 

 since devoted his attention to literature and 

 Vrwmsi^omy.—ApjAeton's Cyclop oj Am.Biog. 

 Pilling: This word following a title or within 

 parentheses after a note indicates that a cojiy 

 of the work referred to is in the possession of 

 the compiler of this catalogue. 



Pitchlynn (Pc'ter P.) A Cbibowa cbi 

 Bilikali. 



In Indian Journal, vol. 11, no. 17, p. ], Mu.sko- 

 gee, Ind. T. Jan. 19, 1887, folio. 



Tho hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee," in 

 Choctaw; translated by Mr. Pitchlynn. 



Appeared also iu tho following: 

 " Nearer my God to Tliec." (Trans- 

 lated iuto Chocfcaw by P. P. Pitcblyn, in 

 1887.) A Cbibowa cbi bilika li. 



In Indian Mis.sionary, vol. 3, no. 3, p. 2 

 Atoka, Ind. T. Jan. 1887, 4°. 



A hymn of six stanzas, with headingas above. 



Pitchlynn (P. P.) — Coutianed. 



Cboctaw vocabnlary. (*) 



Manuscript, 19 pp. folio, in the library of Dr. 

 J. G. Shea, Elizabeth, N. J. 



See Wright (A.) and Byington (C.) 



Peter P. Pitchlynn, Chcctaw chief, born in 

 Hush-ook-wa (now part of Noxubee County, 

 Miss.) January 30, 1800, died in Washington, 

 D. C, in January, 1881. His father was a white 

 man, bearing General Washington's commis- 

 sion as an interpreter, and his mother was a 

 Choctaw. He was brought up like an Indian 

 boy, but manifesting a desire to be educated, 

 he was sent 200 miles to school in Tennessee, 

 that being the nearest to his father's log cabin. 

 At the end of the first quarter he returned home 

 to find his people engaged in negotiating a 

 treaty with the general government. As he 

 considered the terms of this instrument a fraud 

 upon his tribe, he refused to shake hands with 

 Gen. Andrew Jackson, who had the matter in 

 charge on behalf of tho Washington authorities. 

 He afterward attended tho Columbia (Tenn.) 

 Academy, and was ultimately graduated at the 

 University of Nashville. In 1828 he was ap- 

 pointed tho leader of an Indian delegation sent 

 by the United States Government into the Osage 

 country on a peace-making and exploring ex- 

 pedition, preparatory to the removal of the 

 Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Creeks beyond tho 

 Mississippi. Six months were occupied in tho 

 journey, and the negotiations were every way 

 successful, Pitchlynn displaying no little diplo- 

 matic skill and courage. Ho emigrated to tlio 

 new reservation with his people, and built a 

 cabin on Arkansas River. At the beginning of 

 the civil war in 18G1 Pitchlynn was in Wash- 

 ington attending to public business for his 

 tribe, and assured Mr. Lincoln that he hoped 

 to keep his people neutral ; but he could not 

 prevent three of his own children and many 

 others from joining tho Confederates. Ho him- 

 self remained a Union man to tho end of the 

 war, notwithstanding tho fact that the Con- 

 federates raided his plantation of COO acres and 

 captured all his cattle, while the emancipation 

 proclamation freed his one hundred slaves. Ho 

 was a natural orator, as his address to the 

 President at the White House in 18r)5, his 

 speeches before the Congressional committees 

 iu 1808, and one deliveicd before a delegation 

 of Quakers at Washington in 1809, abundantly 

 prove. According to Charles Dickens, who 

 met him while on his first visit to this country, 

 Pitchlynn was a handsome man, with black 

 hair, aquiline nose, broad cheek-bones, sun- 

 burnt complexion, and bright, keen, dark, and 

 piercing oyes. He was buried in tho Congres- 

 sional Cemetery at Washington with Masonic 

 honors, tho poet, Albert Pike, delivering a 

 eulogy over his remains. See Charles Dickens' 

 "American Notes," and Ch.arles Lanmac's 

 "Recollections of Curious Characters," Edin- 

 burgh, \ii%l.—Applcton's Cyclop, of Am. liiog. 

 I formed a very pleasant acquaintance with 



